I’m interested in how you bring great ideas, great cultures, and great approaches to scale.
Molly Graham has done that at 3 rapidly growing companies – Google, FaceBook, and Quip. According to Graham, scaling is crazy hard and unique every time. You need to:
- Prepare people for the journey they’ll experience
- Be willing to give away your own job every few months
- Understand that different phases of size. Eg. 30-50 people and you go from being a family to being a company
- Hire the first 100 people carefully because they dictate the next 100
- Start thinking in terms of teams after 750
- List what qualities you want your company to embody
- Communicate constantly
- Develop amazing leaders
- Fire people when it’s not working
- Prioritize principles over process